Members Johnstinkpants Posted February 17, 2007 Members Share Posted February 17, 2007 Who plays it? I'm writing material for my new band, heavily Kyuss inspired kind of stuff Need some new gear for the demo, what are you guys using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Crappymonkey Posted February 17, 2007 Members Share Posted February 17, 2007 I play it. I'm using either my SG or Ibanez thinline (it's a hollowbody but it has a great rock sound) into my VHT Fifty/ST with no effects. You can play stoner with pretty much any kind of gear. Look at the bands you like and see what they used. I think Kyuss had an Ampeg v4 and used an Ovation UK2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members k4df4l Posted February 17, 2007 Members Share Posted February 17, 2007 Got anything with P90s?.....my SG Classic is my go-to guitar for fuzzy heavy stoner rock style tones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jake7 Posted February 17, 2007 Members Share Posted February 17, 2007 I have a side project/fun jam band kinda thing playing that stuff... from Kyuss to Crowbar and CoC type slow sabbathed out jams.We do the odd gig once in a blue moon, and I use my Gibson SG gothic through a RAT pedal into a seventies Sound City 100 watt head and 4x12, and it slays! Sound city amps are dirt cheap...best kept secret in amps IMO...all tube and handwired...I have seen 'em go for $300 on ebay...scruffy but they are bombproof. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members metalcore Posted February 17, 2007 Members Share Posted February 17, 2007 My band plays it. I use teles with a Seymour Duncan Tweak Fuzz into a peavey classic 50 amp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Johnstinkpants Posted February 17, 2007 Author Members Share Posted February 17, 2007 Being a student I suffer from cheap gear syndrome I hear a lot of the hugeness of stoner rock bands' guitar tones comes from cranked up amps. I own a valveking 212 and its really just too loud. I get told to turn it down when it's on 2 and a half (out of ten) and it sounds so much better when turned up A guy on another forum suggested cranking it up then using and eq pedal to turn down the volume...would this work? I thought that's what attenuators were for? [/noob] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Johnstinkpants Posted February 18, 2007 Author Members Share Posted February 18, 2007 bump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members anomaly Posted February 18, 2007 Members Share Posted February 18, 2007 Mabe try an Ampeg VT-40 combo? which is basically a smaller version of the V4 head and VT-22 combo which Kyuss and QOTSA used. It's still a pretty damn loud amp though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Doug Darkwater Posted February 18, 2007 Members Share Posted February 18, 2007 You can play stoner with pretty much any kind of gear. Don't say that around curseoftruth! He'll call you a "{censored}ing moron" and then cut your {censored}ing head off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Crappymonkey Posted February 19, 2007 Members Share Posted February 19, 2007 Don't say that around curseoftruth! He'll call you a "{censored}ing moron" and then cut your {censored}ing head off. If he can find me I've gotten some good stoner tones with a Strat through a Traynor amp before so I know it can be done. But then again I like the more rock side of stoner rock ... bands like Kyuss, Dozer, Fu Manchu, Atomic Bitchwax, Brant Bjork ... I'm not too sure about drone or sludge stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sylvesterlowery Posted February 19, 2007 Members Share Posted February 19, 2007 Some of the best stoner/doom/desert rock tones come from Les Pauls/SG's & Orange/Matamp/Marshall setups. Look at the setups of the players you admire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Flannery Posted February 19, 2007 Members Share Posted February 19, 2007 I highly recommend a Big Muff distortion pedal. The black made in Russia one. It's cheap, cheap and under $100 bucks (well under on E-Bay). I love Kyuss and Fu Manchu and I can pretty much nail their sound with it. Just play it through a tube amp on the clean channel and let the fuzz fly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members riffpowers Posted February 19, 2007 Members Share Posted February 19, 2007 My heaviest setup is my hamer jr into my matamp. Class!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gaui Posted February 19, 2007 Members Share Posted February 19, 2007 SG + Big Muff + Ampeg SVT bass tubeamp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members finboy Posted February 19, 2007 Members Share Posted February 19, 2007 I have a side project/fun jam band kinda thing playing that stuff... from Kyuss to Crowbar and CoC type slow sabbathed out jams.We do the odd gig once in a blue moon, and I use my Gibson SG gothic through a RAT pedal into a seventies Sound City 100 watt head and 4x12, and it slays!Sound city amps are dirt cheap...best kept secret in amps IMO...all tube and handwired...I have seen 'em go for $300 on ebay...scruffy but they are bombproof. any clips of those amps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gravity Posted February 19, 2007 Members Share Posted February 19, 2007 Get a sub 50-watt tube amp that you like the sound of and run its line-out into a 100+watt bass amp. Use your neck pickup. You'll have plenty of doom and grind without overbearing volume. I ran a Mesa Subway Rocket (20 watts) into an Ampeg BA115 with a Strat and it sounded thick and beefy as all hell. I was using the middle and neck pickups of the strat in series. Never underestimate the use of a bass amp in stoner rock applications. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Swimrunner Posted February 19, 2007 Members Share Posted February 19, 2007 you can play stoner rock with almost anything, the general norm though is stuff that's mahogany, 24.75 scale and humbuckers or p-90's. gibsons are the most common, hamers or prs's are great too. they haven't been mentioned yet but i think my mesa f-30 can get pretty stoner rockish-sounding with my p-90 les paul its got that nice warm and slightly fuzzy but defined sound to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hua and a tele Posted February 19, 2007 Members Share Posted February 19, 2007 You really can use anything, I used a hamer into a seymour duncan pickup booster into a V4 for a while. Ended up getting rid of the V4 and now use a strat style guitar(humbucker in bridge/S.C. in the neck)into a bad monkey->seymour duncan pickup booster-> the clean channel of a Mesa stiletto duece. Clean channel set to fat clean, channel volume set at about 11 O'clock and the master cranked. Gives a nice distorted but clear tone and it sounds wide open without a huge amount of compression. Sounds bad ass to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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